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Remedy’s Máté Hartai Is the David Bowie of the Dallas Bar Scene

If you’ve been to Remedy, the refined comfort food spot on Lower Greenville, you have definitely sipped one of barman Máté Hartai’s delicately balanced cocktails. The drink program here centers around the idea of the “American soda fountain,” and Hartai adds plenty of booze, enthusiasm, and sophistication to that classic...
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Street Food and Booze Compete at Chefs for Farmers’ Kickoff

Last night, nearly 350 of Dallas’ biggest foodies helped Chefs for Farmers kick off their 2015 season by drinking a lot of summer punch and gorging on street food. The Mix Off, held in downtown event center, DEC on Dragon, was a competition including five of Dallas’ best sous chefs...
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Goosebumps Honors the Vigorous Fun of R.L. Stine — for a While

Here's a scary story for you. Somewhere in Hollywood, a cabal of producers are forever zombie-ing up the corpses of long-dead licensed properties, ever hopeful that you will continue to throw your money at familiar trademarked characters even as they eat your brains. Sometimes, when a silver moon shines just...
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10 Beers That Could Make Dallas as Famous as Milwaukee

Schlitz is the beer that made Milwaukee famous — we don't know what for exactly, or anyone who drinks Schlitz, for that matter, but never mind that. Anheuser-Busch was once the heart of St. Louis. Now it's the appendix of Belgian-Brazilian consortium InBev. Anchor Steam is San Francisco's iconic brew,...
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Superb Reporting Drama Spotlight Is a Rallying Cry

Newspapers are dead, except in the hearts of anyone who has ever loved them — which means there are still narrow slivers of hope. One of them now comes to us in the form of a movie: Tom McCarthy’s bold, shirtsleeve-sturdy newsroom drama Spotlight, which shows how a team of...
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Free & Cheap Culture Events in Dallas This Week

Complaining that you’re bored is, well, boring. In all likelihood, your boredom is more related to the fact that you’re not reading and enriching your booze-rotted brain than any real lack of arts and culture in Dallas. There is plenty to do, even if sometimes you do have to look...
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UT Fixes Admissions Policy. Sorta.

It should probably go without saying that the University of Texas should not have been admitting unqualified candidates. The place that anyone but an Aggie will tell you is the crown jewel of the Texas higher education system should, at a bare minimum, require that those admitted by able to...
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Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 41: Luscher’s Red Hots

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  Most Italian beef sandwiches sold in Dallas are exactly the same. Chicago-based Vienna...
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After 17 Years, Garth Brooks is Finally Coming Back to Dallas

We were getting a little bit testy. Last winter, country mega star Garth Brooks announced that he was finally heading out on the road after a 15-years hiatus from touring. Except there weren't any dates in Dallas. Then he changed his mind and came to Dallas anyway — but only...
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Deep Vellum’s Latest, Tram 83, Is a Literary Mixtape

“In the beginning was the stone and the stone prompted ownership” is how Fiston Mwanza Mujilla’s Tram 83 opens. An epigraph that serves as an elusive foreshadowing of the story that follows. The stone in question is a diamond, African diamonds, to be specific, which have prompted a diamond-rush in...
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Whatever Happened to Dallas’ Eight-Liner Crackdown?

In 2001, under pressure from police and politicians, then-Dallas County District Attorney Bill Hill launched a highly publicized crackdown on illegal eight-liner parlors that had sprung up like ragweed in dingy storefronts in Dallas and suburbs. Toby Shook, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, remembers Hill assembling reporters at a...
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Welcome to DFW: Eat This!

To the uninitiated, the restaurant scene in Dallas can feel overwhelming. I would know, having recently moved here myself to cover food for the Observer, a daunting task in a metropolitan area with such a vibrant, diverse food culture. Southern, Vietnamese, Cajun, barbecue, Japanese, Tex-Mex, French-continental — with everything from steakhouses...
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Taj Mahal Imports Is Awesome

I love exploring ethnic groceries. When you find a good one, walking through the front door is like walking into a different country, and a tapestry of sights, smells and other sensory experiences wait to be discovered in every aisle. With each new grocery store I find, I almost always...